Please share an interesting fact about avoiding dehydration.

Ignore: Your performance drops by about 10% for every 5% dehydration, restoring electrolytes every 3rd glass.

Ignore: If you have a headache, it may be one of the first sign that your body's is dehydrated.

Ignore: Dehydration can occur from drinking too much alcohol.

Ignore: During exercise and felling thirsty, you cannot absorb water from your gut fast enough! too late!

Some: Some people find that drinking warm water allows them to drink more. This leads to ^ hydration.

Even: Even MILD Dehydration can dramatically increase the risk of seizures in epileptic patients.

MILD: MILD DEHYDRATION can cause the following: Headache, sluggishness, reduced urine or sweat output.

Feeling: Feeling thirst is a WARNING SIGN to dehydration and should be heeded when it comes on.

Coffee: Coffee and tea are not dehydrating. This is a popular myth, but they actually help hydrate!

Gator: Gator aid or pedilyte is more effective than water to prevent or treat dehydration.

A: A little salt is necessary to replace the salt lost in sweat.

Coffee: Coffee does not dehydrate you- that is a myth. Alcohol DOES but coffee and soda do not.

You: You can guess you dehydration by looking at your urine color, the darker it is the more dehydrated.

The: The best way to tell if you are dehydrated is to check your urine. If it is clear, you are hydrated.

To: To maintain good hydration, you have to drink water and make sure to replace your electrolytes.

A: A loss of only 1-2% of your ideal water content in your body can cause a state of dehydration.

The: The average person loses nearly 6 POUNDS of water daily through normal metabolic activities.

Drink: Drink water every 20 minutes during exercise activities, when sweating, or just being in a hot place.

Drinking: Drinking alcohol, caffeine, or sugary drinks lead to or cause dehydration to become worse.

Increase: Increase in altitudes can cause you to become hydrated so drink accordingly!!!

Oral: Oral rehydration solutions contain water AND electrolytes.

Cool: Cool water is best for athletic related dehydration.

Intravenous: Intravenous fluids replenishes the body faster than oral fluid rehydration.

A: A doctor can determine the extent of your dehydration with a simple blood test.

Elderly: Elderly adults are more prone to developing dehydration.

Dehydration: Dehydration should be suspected in your baby if there are no wet diapers for more then 3 hours.

A: A sunken soft spot on a baby's head can be a sign of dehydration.

You: You may need to take spoonful of fluids at a time to rehydrate yourself slowly.

When: When exercising hot conditions, you can lose 1-2 Liters of sweat an hour!!!

Muscle: Muscle cramping and weakness can be signs of dehydration.

Thirst: Thirst + light yellowish urine hints dehydrating; so, drink more fluid then.

Caffeinated: Caffeinated beverages and alcohol may contribute to dehydration by causing increased urine output.

Taking: Taking diuretics increases risk for dehydration.

Hydrating: Hydrating prior to a vigorous athletic activity helps avoid dehydration.

Sometimes,you: Sometimes,you have to consciously Increace your fluid intake to prevent dehydration.

Ignore: You should drink water if you notice your urine is a darker yellow than lemonade.

Ignore: Drink extra water during hot weather. We sweat and perspire more in summer also with exercise.

Thanks: Thanks 2 the fiber in cabbage it helps lose weight as well as hydrate.

Pineapple: Pineapple has hydrating & digestive properties & bromelain, a compound w' medicinal properties.

Green: Green pepper has slightly > water content than yellow & red but all 3 R a source of antioxidants.

Radish: Radish has > than 95 % water +an abundance of the antioxidant called catechin.

Tomato: Tomato has a little < than 95 % water & is a great hydration food.

Freshly: Freshly squeezed fruit juices are a good to quench thirst.

These: These vegetables have high water content: broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, eggplant, zucchini.

Babies: Babies small children have increased risk of dehydration because a greater portion of their bodies are made of water.

You: You should drink enough water daily so that your urine is almost clear. That's adequate hydration.

Ignore: Make sure you drink enough liquid so that you pass urine frequently and it barely has color to it.